Press Statements
Coalition of like-minded Progressive Organisations: Justice for the Victims of Dis-honour Killing in Hubbali
25 Dec, 2025“Fraternity means a sense of common brotherhood of all Indians-of Indians being one people. It is the principle which gives unity and solidarity to social life. It is a difficult thing to achieve…The castes are anti-national. In the first place because they bring about separation in social life. They are anti-national also bec...
PUCL welcomes the decision of the Surajpur Court to reject the UP government’s plea to drop all charges against the accused in the Mohammed Akhlaq lynching case
27 Dec, 2025On 23rd December, 2025, a fast-tracked court in Surajpur, Uttar Pradesh rejected the state government’s plea to drop all charges against the accused in the Mohammed Akhlaq lynching case on the basis that ‘the offence of murder is a grave offence committed against society.’ Nearly 10 years have passed since 52-year-old...
PUCL Uttar Pradesh: Calling those unable to be a part of the SIR list “infiltrators” and sending them to detention centers is a violation of civil rights
10 Dec, 2025On December 7, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath issued a letter to the public through all newspapers, in which he referred to the special intensive voter revision process and spoke about identifying Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators in the state and placing them in detention centers. He made this statement while quoting...
The Education Minister of Rajasthan must clarify the order on “Shaurya Diwas” himself
30 Nov, 2025After PUCL Rajasthan published the above press notes on the basis of news published in the major newspapers, there was a press note from the Director of Secondary Education that he had not issued such a press note. Following this, PUCL Rajasthan immediately released this. Contradictory statements by the Minister’s PA and the Dir...
Observing the Babri Masjid Demolition as “Shaurya Diwas”: A Serious Criminal Act Rajasthan
30 Nov, 2025Government’s order to celebrate 6 December as ‘Shaurya Diwas’ is a grave violation of constitutional values The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan strongly condemns the news published in today’s daily newspapers stating that the Government of Rajasthan has directed all government and private schools to ...
Nation-wide lawyers protest the arrests and intimidation of villagers in Odisha, against the illegal acquisition of Schedule V land for Vedanta Pvt. Ltd.'s bauxite mining project
15 Dec, 2025Read in Odia and Hindi too. Led by Odisha lawyers, over 125 lawyers, legal professionals (faculty), and law students nationwide, have signed a petition addressed to the Governor of Odisha, and the DGP of Odisha police, requesting them to urgently perform their constitutional duties to protect Schedule V lands, the citizens therein...
CASR Condemns the Extrajudicial Killing of CPI (Maoist) Leader Madvi Hidma; Rule of Law Cannot Be Suspended in Bastar
21 Nov, 2025On 18 November 2025, Madvi Hidma, the youngest member of the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) and an Adivasi from Bastar, was murdered in a fake encounter along with his wife Rajakka and five other members of the party. Hidma and the others were illegally abducted when they were unarmed, from a shelter where they had been sta...
The PUCL Condemns the J&K Order of surveillance of working journalists and the denial of press freedom
14 Nov, 2025Demands that the Administration instill faith in the media and promote a free press, fundamental to a democracy People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), India, deplores the recent attempt by the Jammu and Kashmir government and its District Information Officers (DIOs) to surveil working journalists, restrict access to freelanc...
PUCL Condemns the attack on V. Suresh, General Secretary PUCL
02 Nov, 2025PUCL Condemns Violent Assault on Dr. V. Suresh by Mining Mafia in Tirunelveli The PUCL national and the PUCL Tamil Nadu– Puducherry strongly condemn the assault on Dr. V. Suresh, National General Secretary of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties and Senior Advocate of the Madras High Court, which took place today at Tirunelv...
PUCL condemns regressive and defamatory views of DU Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh Singh: At odds with constitutional values
08 Oct, 2025People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) India, is shocked at the troubling views expressed by Dr. Yogesh Singh, professor and Vice Chancellor, Delhi University on 28th September, 2025, in a speech titled “Naxal Mukt Bharat: Ending Red Terror Under Modi’s Leadership, Why Campuses are Targets?” The speech was addressed to ...